Dieter M. Gräf was born on November 24th, 1960 in Ludwigshafen on the Rhein and lived there and in Cologne; 2004/05 in Rome, New York and Vézelay; and since then as a poet in Berlin. Since 1994 his books were published by Suhrkamp, Wunderhorn, Insel and at Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, as well as in USA, in Croatia and France.
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(the soft paws of the organ)
(behind the back, shining
Magdalene relic) (you
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'and failure, yes, that does it in this life'
T. Kling, Leopardi: L'Infinito / Das Unendliche
this hugely orange, table-filling ashtray,
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's wedding present
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to put oneself
out in an incan
descent nothing;
in the highway tunnel
a shark's mouth, diving,
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